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The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
2016-01-21

Sierra Leone imposes quarantine on hundreds of people following a recent death from the Ebola virus.
2016-01-17

The World Health Organisation declares an end to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with Liberia the last country to be declared free of the virus.
2016-01-14

The World Health Organization declares that the outbreak of the Ebola virus has ceased in Liberia after weeks of no cases there.
2015-05-9

China sends an additional 232 People's Liberation Army medical workers to West Africa to combat the outbreak (in addition to the 78 that had previously been stationed).
2015-01-13

Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa.
2014-10-10

The World Health Organisation says that the death toll from the Ebola virus is over 2,900.
2014-09-26

The United States will send thousands of troops to West Africa to build Ebola virus clinics and train health workers.
2014-09-16

Cuba announces plans to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,400 lives.
2014-09-12

The ebola virus outbreak in West Africa continues to get worse with the death toll now exceeding 500.
2014-07-14